May - Macro Photo Club News

May monthly theme - April showers bring May flowers so share your spring woodland wildflower images.

Macro Photo Club members, post your images in the Mike Moats Macro Photo Club Facebook group.

The winner of the April product giveaway for the Litra Light Torch is Andrea Oppenheim.  Andrea, email me at, macrogeekmike@yahoo.com 

The May product giveaway is a Wimbery Plamp. 

For those who are lifetime members, when you signed up you were sent a welcome email.  That email has the links to access the instructional videos so make sure to save that email. If you lost the welcome email contact me and I'll send you a new one. macrogeekmike@yahoo.com

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Most macro photographers that photograph subjects in their home have set up some kind of photo studio. Maybe a small light tent, artificial lighting, and various backgrounds.

My home studio is my foyer stairway.  Why the stairway, because the stairway has a two-story high ceiling with a very large window on the second level that floods the stairway with beautiful natural light.  It seems to wrap the light around my subjects.

I obviously don't want stairs as my backgrounds, so I have lots of printed background and shoot with the natural lighting, so no need for artificial lights.  

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As we progress in our photography, we start to look at some of our past images, and realize we have gotten a lot better, and some of the older images don't meet up to our skills of today.  We may be better at finding more unique subjects, better at composing subjects, and better at post processing.  So from time to time I review some of my old images and start deleting. Here's one I shot a long time ago, but it's a keeper.

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It's dandelion season and if you haven't killed the ones in your yard, you could pick them right there, or head to your local park, they will have some.

If you don't mind getting down on the ground you could shoot them on the stem, or if you want to make it easier, pick one and use a Plamp to hold it up in the air while you sit on a stool or like me on the edge of my porch. Much easier on the body.

You could place a background behind the seedhead, or I'm using the grass off in the distance for this shot. 

You can pick off some of the seeds and create different looks. 

Lots of different ways to shoot these.  Everything in focus with a high f/stop number or use a small f/stop number for softer look.

Be creative on ways to compose them, and maybe do some creative post processing.

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There are a lot of reason why I like macro nature photography. We have tons of subjects to shoot close to home, subjects change through out the season, we control the light, you can get by with just one lens if you’re on a limited budget. Another advantage we have as macro photographers is that we can be more artistic. We can create abstracts with the subjects we shoot and also have the ability to create interesting artwork using the shallow depth of field. Sure landscape photographers can do some motion blurs and swirl the camera for a few interesting effects, but they can’t come close to the artistic options we have a macro photographers.

We can create interesting abstract like this one which is dew on top of a mushroom.

Or how about some cool abstracts in ice.

We can take simple subjects like this Dandelion and create artistic images with shallow depth of field.

How about some Monet

Create art with rain drops in a pine tree

We have unlimited opportunity to create great artwork with macro, so go be creative.

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